Sextants at Greenwich : a catalogue of the mariner's quadrants, mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, octants, sextants, quintants, reflecting circles and artificial horizons in the National maritime Museum, Greenwich / W.F-J. Mörzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by Richard Dunn.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, c2009.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 323 p., [16] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 32 cm
Note:
In custodia
Contiene:
Indice: Abbreviations. Pt. 1. Historical background: 1. An introduction to the history of celestial navigation 2. The history and development of instruments for measuring alitude at sea before the octant 3. The invention of the octant, and its development and diffusion 4. The sextant and further improvements in the eighteenth century 5. Innovations and production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 6. Collecting and interpreting navigation at Greenwich / Richard Dunn. Pt. 2. The catalogue. Appendix 1. The Adams and other significant collections: a checklist. Appendix 2. Concordance of inventory numbers. Bibliography. Index
